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Obama's Right, Cranky Liberals Need To Be More Realistic
Tweet Share on Facebook September 30, 2010 Comment (12)The message from the White House toward political progressives is consistent, even if the tone has varying levels of politeness. The left needs to be “drug tested” (Press Secretary Robert Gibbs), should “stop whining” (Vice President Joe Biden), or needs to compare the performance of the Obama administration not to the “Almighty,” but “to the alternative” (President Obama).
This is arguably not a very nice way to talk to the people whose votes you desperately need to keep a GOP tidal wave this fall from becoming an out-and-out tsunami. But the truth sometimes hurts, and the White House is right.
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Obama's 'Arrogant' Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook September 28, 2010 Comment (21)In a campaign season marked by an almost irrational anti-establishment mood, “arrogant,” it seems, is the new scarlet “A.”
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Republican 'Pledge' on the Constitution Is Just Wacky
Tweet Share on Facebook September 27, 2010 Comment (29)Of all the promises in the GOP’s “Pledge to America,” the most potentially troublesome is the demand that all legislation include a clause stating exactly how the proposed law is provided for in the U.S. Constitution.
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Republicans’ ‘Pledge to America’ Is A Stack of Bumper Stickers
Tweet Share on Facebook September 24, 2010 Comment (21)The Republicans’ "Pledge to America" could have been a no-nonsense, make-the-tough-decisions, visionary plan to take the country out of a troubling era of high unemployment, cultural divides, and stalemate in Congress. Instead, it was a stack of bumper stickers.
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Is Andrew Cuomo New York's Version of Martha Coakley?
Tweet Share on Facebook September 23, 2010 Comment (2)Andrew Cuomo, meet Martha Coakley. Or at least, pay close attention.
Cuomo, New York’s attorney general and son of former Gov. Mario Cuomo, was considered a shoo-in to win the governorship in November. Despite a slew of scandals involving the current and previous Democratic governors, Cuomo is still popular with voters and seemed destined to avoid the throw-the-bums-out mood dominating so many political contests. And New York is a reliably Democratic state.
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Lady Gaga Doesn't Help in the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Fight
Tweet Share on Facebook September 21, 2010 Comment (28)Memo to gay rights supporters: If you want to convince the American public and members of Congress that repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy is a matter of basic human dignity, don’t send Lady Gaga.
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The Democrats' Christine O'Donnell Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook September 20, 2010 Comment (27)Democrats, scrambling to limit the extent of their losses in the midterm elections, are hoping to tie the entire Republican Party to the Tea Party movement, a move they hope will make disaffected voters choose unpopular Democrats over "extremist" Republicans. The primary victory of GOP Delaware Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell, who canceled a series of TV interviews over the weekend after political comedian Bill Maher unearthed her long-ago flirtation with witchcraft, certainly gives the Democrats a boost.
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Does the Tea Party Even Vet Its Own Candidates?
Tweet Share on Facebook September 17, 2010 Comment (16)CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--The primary elections in Massachusetts, where Tea Party movement-backed candidates scored surprisingly well in this still-blue state, raise a critical general election question:
Do they not vet these people?
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2010 Elections’ Female Candidates Render Moot the ‘Women’s Vote'
Tweet Share on Facebook September 17, 2010 Comment (1)Women were given the right to vote in America 90 years ago last month, when the 19th Amendment became law. And yet still, female voters are treated as some exotic, monolithic voter group, indicating that females still have a long way to go politically.
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Tea Party Cannibalism Is Hurting the GOP in the 2010 Election
Tweet Share on Facebook September 15, 2010 Comment (15)Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party movement-backed candidate who scored a stunning GOP primary victory in Delaware Tuesday night, had it right in one sense. “Republican cannibalism,” O’Donnell said, describing the intra-party fighting that preceded her astonishing win.
